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After what time I can ask a duplicate question to my another question which I've just deleted? [duplicate]
I asked a question which haven't got any answer so I want to try again. But asking a new one it even with changes looks like duplicate to the old one so system don't let me to ask it. So I deleted the ...
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Reputation points for the questioner whose answer gets voted up
When an answer gets voted up, the person who has asked the question should get reputation points added, because at the core of Stack Overflow it is the huge cache of questions by the questioner which ...
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What does the "That solved my problem!" button do?
Why does this button appear? Because someone's suggested this is a duplicate?
What happens when I click this button? Will my question be closed? Will score from the guys who've already answered my ...
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How does Stack Overflow handle obsolete answer? [duplicate]
I mean obsolete information like, let's say I have a question:
How to do foreach within JavaScript?
the old answer would be:
You can't you have to use for-loop.
But JavaScript is now has ...
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What is the algorithm/metric used to determine question similarity?
When one asks a question on stackoverflow, a list of already asked questions (ranked in order of most similar to least similar?) are displayed to the user.
How is this similarity determined? Does ...
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Old question, new technology, new answer
What should be done when a question is similar to an old question, but the answer to the new question depends on technology that did not exist, or was not usably mature, at the time of the old ...
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Why isn't this obvious duplicate offered when asking the question
I just closed https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24016013/whats-the-difference-using-var-f-functiona-and-function-fa as an exact duplicate of var functionName = function() {} vs function functionName(...
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